There’s little to miss about the DVD. Not their propensity to make the picture shudder because you scratched the disc by lazily leaving it out of the case on top of the player, not the ‘you wouldn’t steal a car’ pre-film piracy warnings and certainly not the home screen menu music, that would go round in circles ad delirium when you left it on and passed out.

The BFI has conducted its annual Sight & Sound poll, asking 163 critics and curators to pick their five best films of the year, and coming out on top is a German comedy about a dad playing pranks on his estranged daughter.

Steve Martin and Campbell Scott star in the Hitchcockian thriller, complete with dialogue known as ‘Mamet-speak’, with incomplete sentences, stutters and interruptions – but, uncharacteristically, no foul language

They don't make'em like that any more. Kirk Douglas, a towering figure in Hollywood history and a bona fide movie great, turns 100 today. Graeme Ross rounds up his top 10 film picks from a career spanning six decades